Musician Gear & Tech Discussion

I just received a Mastered sample from the recording studio.

When I play the mix through my Audition software...it sounds great ...through the speakers...but when I go to the headphones, I don't hear any rhythm guitar at all.

When I plug the headphones into the speaker jack on my computer I hear everything.

There must be something I'm missing with Audition...I've been using it for well over a year and never had this problem.

Does anyone have a thought or solution? Not a big deal...just an interesting frustration!

Hold on, how are you listening with the headphones when you DON'T hear the rhythm guitar - do you have an audio interface that the headphones are plugged into? How about if you play the mastered sample in another software? I assume it is stereo 16-bit? How about burning a CD and listening on a stereo or car system?

Have you wiggled the headphone jack to be sure it's not just a bad connection?

I had a similar problem a few days ago trying to record a rough track of a song idea. I have to plug the mic into this thing before I boot up or it won't see it at all, and when I tried the initial recording I had only one side. It should be stereo. Wiggled the jack a couple of times and it started recording stereo, as it should, it's a stereo mic.

Now I have to see if I have a decent sounding condenser mic, that one was tinny as all hell...too much treble, almost no bass...but it got the song idea down so I can work on it some more later on. That's what matters for what I was trying to do. For that I don't care what it sounds like, as long as I capture the idea before I forget it...it sucks that I don't have my multitrack unit any more. It worked great with a stage mic, Shure PE 35L, but the friend who gave it to me died last year (partial payment for a job I did) and his widow decided to take it back when she got mad at me. I wouldn't play the funeral song she wanted me to learn, he had made it abundantly clear he did NOT want a funeral...I promised him I would have no part of the funeral he told me he was sure she was going to do anyway, she did, got mad at me and now I don't have a good recording unit any more...ad she lied to me to get it...

OK sorry to stray so far off topic...it just gets to me sometimes, like when I try to record something and no longer have the equipment I worked for.

I had the same problem when I first started to use that multitrack unit. The line out plugs were dirty, and one of the sliders. Crummy sound, crackly, no stereo, I had to get out the contact cleaner and go through everything before it started working right. Drove me nuts...

I've had this problem several times, dirty connections causing both headphones and mics to get only one side. Wiggle it to clean up the connection or use some contact cleaner. I use Audacity, works great but a bad connection will do the same thing no matter what software you use.

perhaps the guitar track is set to go out on another channel? and that channel either isn't present on your soundcard, has no connection, or is muted on your mixer?

I haven't used a std pc soundcard in a while but as I recall the headphone jack will sum all tracks automagically while they might be ported to dif outputs in the recording. So one thing I'd check is the output settings on each track. Hope that helps!

cheers,
mv

Ahem...I officially feel stupid as hell!

But...in my own defense...I have never had a reason to plug my headphones into the second headphone slot. Is one slot 16 bit and the other 32? I ask because the file he sent me is a mix straight from his OMF file (I think) because it is says it is 32 bit.
At anyrate...I gotter figured out...
Thanks for all the help...
I'm sure I'll have a nudder mess soon enuf...